Nine more Lebanese return from “Israel”

 

“ Nine Lebanese who fled to “Israel” as the Jewish state withdrew from Lebanon in May returned home Monday, an AFP correspondent reported.

Only one member of the group was a former militiaman for “Israel’s” proxy militia. The others were women and children.

The refugees returned at the Naqoura border post and were taken by UN peacekeepers to Lebanese security forces.

Some 6,000 Lebanese, mostly members of the militia and their families, fled when “Israel” ended its 22-year occupation of south Lebanon, fearing reprisals from Beirut authorities or by Hizbullah, the militant movement that spearheaded armed resistance to “Israel”.

Some 1,250 of them have since returned to Lebanon.

AFP, 13-11-2000.